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    Ecofeminism in Summer’s End: Mapping Change in Turkish Society
    (UMT Lahore, 2018) MASHAL FAROOQI
    This study explores the prospects of ecofeminism in Adalet Ağaoğlu’s novel Summer’s End. Ecofeminism is an interdisciplinary inquiry based on studies including feminism, women’s health and ecology. This thesis contends that the work of Adalet Ağaoğlu gives us evidence of ecofeminism and maps the political and environmental change in Turkish society. Drawing on the knowledge of ecology and women’s liberation, fundamentally ecofeminism is a belief system which upholds the idea that the force which approves abuses based on race, class, sex, sexuality, physical capacities, and species originates from the same philosophy which endorses the persecution of nature. Social, political, and cultural upheavals have left permanent marks on Turkey’s ecology and women. Turkish women writers have used their pen as a tool to discuss the changes in culture, society and environment of the nation. This study explores the connection between the female characters of the novel and the change in Turkish natural environment. This study fills in the gap as Eastern Mediterranean is underrepresented in Turkish literature. To analyze the text deeply factors in the sociopolitical, cultural, economic and environmental transformation of the country have been incorporated in the study. Turkish society faces many environmental threats and dangers. Summer’s End takes in environmental problems which arise with the construction of hotels, motels, roads and tourism sites in Eastern Mediterranean region.